Report: Contract talks ‘reopened’ between the Saints and Alvin Kamara

NOF’s Nick Underhill reports contract talks reopened between the Saints and Alvin Kamara. No. 41 wants to be a New Orleans lifer:

If Alvin Kamara gets his way, he’ll finish his career in pro football with the New Orleans Saints. The Pro Bowl running back has done his part to earn a new deal before his contract runs out (or the Saints have to make a tough decision and cut him in 2025), playing through injury and rejecting rumors of a training camp holdout. But contract negotiations were slow to develop over the summer, and he’s still on track to be released in the spring before the team has to pay him any non-guaranteed money.

Per NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill, those talks reopened. It had been previously reported that Kamara tabled those discussions once the regular season started, since he didn’t want them to become a distraction when he was preparing for a game every week. Either he changed his stance or the team expressed such a great willingness to talk shop that he gave his agent the green light to pick up the phone.

This all comes as false rumors are spreading online about Kamara requesting a trade away from the Saints, which he publicly denied. When Underhill suggested that, if anything, Kamara wanted to stick around? Kamara kept his response direct: “Correct.”

Will the two sides ultimately come to an agreement? If the team’s early-season success is anything to go off of, he can still be part of the long-term solution as his career winds down. Better blocking and more creative play calling than what we saw with Pete Carmichael on the headset had Kamara looking like a possible Hall of Famer again. If the Saints plan on Klint Kubiak driving their offense (or someone running a similar offense), it would make sense to keep Kamara around.

But as Underhill said, nothing is imminent, so we’ll have to wait and see if this ends how Kamara — and the many fans who wear his jersey every Sunday — hope.

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